Berlin

Scintillating … Berlin is wonderfully funny, and Daphne’s observations about modern life, men and the challenges facing young women always hit the nail * FINANCIAL TIMES *Uncommonly funny, cinematically vivid, and refreshingly honest about how we deceive others and ourselves. * Lisa Halliday, author of ASYMMETRY *Anyone who’s started over in a new city – let alone a new country – will relate … One for Sally Rooney fans * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *A compelling, raw, and thrillingly strange outsider tale of loneliness and deception. Setton is a wonderful writer who, with this sharp debut, adds to the great canon of contemporary anti-heroines. * Mona Awad, author of BUNNY *Combining the darkness of a thriller with humour, Bea Setton’s debut is a fresh and deeply honest take on the modern female experience * STYLIST *Setton builds her growing paranoia and sense of dread to terrific effect in this unsettling, compelling read. * OBSERVER *Enjoyable and astutue … Daphne’s impressions are rendered in precise, lively prose – Rob Doyle * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Cinematic and confessional … Berlin is a Woolfian mirror: Red herrings and cliffhangers stoke interest by conforming to expectations, until the novel undercuts them with digressions and anticlimaxes, reveling in its own formal impunity… electric. * THE NEW YORK TIMES *[An] engagingly self-conscious debut … our attention is firmly held by the wry wit of Daphne’s voice, as well as regular hints that she’s something of an unreliable narrator … the book’s success lies chiefly in its line by-line charm * DAILY MAIL *Weird, compelling and unique: I was completely absorbed by BERLIN, with its slippery, unsettling narrator, its vivid evocation of a city seen through the troubling lens of disorientation, and by the writing itself, which gleamed. * Francesca Reece, author of VOYEUR *

Bea Setton was born in France and has lived in Paris, the USA and Berlin, the city which inspired her critically acclaimed debut novel. She then studied at Cambridge for a master’s in Philosophy & Theology, and this inspired the setting of her second book, Plaything. Bea currently divides her time between Berlin and Oxford, Mississippi, where she is writing her third novel.

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